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461:. This ostracism was not due to his manners, common in that era, but due to the fact that he represented the king and did not waive any of the civil privileges that came with that role. This regal attitude irked a somewhat rebellious province that had only recently been joined to France, where
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Thibouville et Villars, / Imitateurs du premier des Césars, / Tout enflammés du feu qui les possède, / Tête baissée attendre un Nicomède; / Et seconder, par de fréquents écarts, / Les vaillants coups de leurs laquais
335:. They had only one child, Aimable-Angélique de Villars, on 18 March 1723. Maître de Camp of a cavalry regiment and Brigadier in the Armées du Roi, he served in Italy in 1733 under his father's command. He carried back to
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